The great truth has no gates, thousands of roads enter it. When one passes through this gateless gate he walks freely between heaven and...

In Thai, they have a word for practice–patibat–which also means looking after someone, to attend to someone’s needs.  In the practice of...

Today I attended the funeral of someone I have known for a long, long time. A strong man of faith, who gave much to the community.   His...

In his summary of this fascicle, Mushin offers another koan for us to be with: #6″Hard to sit.   Think of not thinking.  How do you think...

Hello, may this letter find you happy and at peace…  I want to start this letter off by sharing an insight I had the other day or so… In...

Mushin offers another excerpt from this fascicle: Koan #5 “When you take that backward step, then body and mind of themselves will drop...

In some ways the end of time came for me on Wednesday, September 4, 2013, when my mother passed away.  My dad had passed away six years...

Mushin offers another koan from this fascicle: Koan#4:  “Learn the backward step that turns your light inwardly to illumine yourself.”

Mushin Sensei continues his outline of this fascicle: Koan #3 “One is making the initial, partial excursions about the frontiers.  It is...

Mushin Sensei offers another part of this great teaching: Koan#2  “If there is the slightest discrepancy the Way is as distant as heaven...